Study on treatment of aquaculture wastewater using a hybrid constructed wetland

Abstract

This paper reported the pollutant removal performances of a hybrid wetland system for the treatment of aquaculture wastewater. The system consisted of two treatment stages: a subsurface vertical flow (VF) wetland, followed by a horizontal flow (HF). The aquaculture wastewater with the different concentrations such as eutrophy and mesotrophy was treated using hybrid constructed wetland. The experimental results showed that the removal efficiencies of eutrophy aquaculture wastewater achieved 56%, 71%, 73% for nitrite, phosphate and nitrate, respectively. At the same conditions, it can be found that the removal efficiencies of mesotrophy aquaculture wastewater achieved 39%, 74%, 73% for nitrite, phosphate and nitrate, respectively.